William bbown



UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

WILLIAM BROWN, OF HALIFAX, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

FIIGURED'WOVEN'FABRIC- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,767, dated December 21, 1886. Application filed December 11, 1885. Serial No. 185,408. (Specimenih) Patented in England January 31,1885, No. 1,370.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known'that I, WILLIAM BROWN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Halifax, in the county of York, England, have invented certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Woven Fabrics, known as Damasks, (for which a patent was granted to me in England, January 31,

1885, No. 1,370,) of which the following is a [O specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of figured or damask fabrics in which mohair is employed as the weft.

Mohair in its natural colors-namely, drabs,

grays, browns, and blacks'will not take the same colors as worsted. In my English Patent No. 3,858 of 1873 I take advantage of this peculiarity inorder to produce two colors when the fabric is dyed in the piece. This I effect by weaving the fabric of mohair and worsted, using mohair in its natural colors for the weft and worsted for the warp. When this fabric is dyed with certain dyes, the worsted will receive the color and the mohair will not;

2 5 but this fabric has very little luster.

The object of my present invention is to pro-' duce a lustrous figured or damask fabric having one color when dyed in the piece, and having a mohair weft and a worsted, mohair, or cotton warp.

In carrying out my invention I employ natural white mohair (as distinguished from mohair of the natural colors) for the weft and naturally-white worsted, mohair, or cotton warp. This fabric,'when dyed in the piece, will have one color throughout, all of the materials taking the color, and the white mohair used as the weft imparts a luster not obtained in such fabrics as commonly woven. If two 0 colors are required in the fabrics, the white mohair weft must be dyed in the yarn of the color desired, and thewarp must be separately dyed. e

I use the word white as descriptive of the mohair I employ to distinguish it from other natural mohair not white. Natural mohair is of different colors as well as white, the colored hair being usually either drab, brown, gray, or black. My present invention has to do only with the naturally-white or uncolored hair. This hair when used as a weft in damask with a white worsted warp produces, when the fabric is dyed in the piece, a damask of but one color, but at the same time one having abeautiful luster and in which 55 the figures stand out in marked contrast to.

the ground.

I do not herein claim, broadly, the use of mohair as a weft, as this has been before employed; but

What I do claim is 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a dyed figured fabric, such as damask, having a weft of naturally-white mohair and a warp of naturally white fiber, such as mohair, worsted, or cotton, as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture,

a figured fabric, such as damask, having a weft of naturally-white mohair and a warp of naturally-white worsted and dyed of one color,

whereby a lustrous fabric in produced, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- WILLIAM BROWN.

a single color is Witnesses:

A. B. OROSSLEY, J OSEPH STEAD.

Both of Commercial Street, Hahfaw. 

